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VOLUME XXXIV
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1942
NUMBER 42
With the Men
in Uniform
Staff Sgt. Gus W. McGill of New
Orleans, is attending the bedside of
his father, Jim McGill.
Frank M. Hall S2e, son of Mrs. J.
1. Lawler, who is stationed at Kings-
ville, has been made yoeman in the
Navy.
Pvt. Hugh Dickson Evans, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Evans, has been
transferred from Madison, Wis., to
Bandolph Field.
Elwin Hignight, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H.‘ O. Hignight, who recently
volunteered for the Navy, is station-
ed at Great Lakes, 111.
Candidate Harry T. Lawler, son
cl Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Lawler of
Milton, has been transferred from
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., to Ft. Custer,
Mich.
Cpl. Dick Burden of Sheppard
Field, spent the week end in the
home of his father, W. F. Burden.
Dick was recently promoted to the
rank of corporal.
Pvt. Johnnie Gill, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Gill of Fulbright, un-
derwent an appendectomy recently
at a hospital at Sheppard Field,
where he is stationed.
Gasolbe Rationing
Goes Into Effect
December 1st
Pvt. J. W. Jackson, brother of Miss
Winnie Jackson, has been transfer-
red from Foster Field, Victoria, to
Matagorda Island, and has recently
been appointed mail clerk.
Warrant Officer J. D. Maddox and
wife of Pasadena, Calif., were week
end guests of his brother, Robert Lee
Maddox and Mrs. Maddox. J. D. has
been temporarily transferred to Ft.
Sill, Ok.
Pvt. J. R. Pettit, mechanic in the
Air Corps, is now in England, ac-
cording to word received by his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Pettit, Pat-
tonville. He joined the service on
Jan. 7, 1942.
Cpl. James Griffin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Griffin, who is with
the Signal Corps attached to the
Army Air Base at Orlandu, Fla., will
return to camp Friday, after a visit
with his parents. James entered the
army on March 1, 1942.
Nationwide mileage rationing is
scheduled to get underway Dec. 1,
after a week’s postponement due to
unavoidable delays in the distribu-
tion of the necessary forms and ra-
tioning books. Registration was un-
derway in schoolhouses of the
Southwest last Friday and Saturday
where teachers and other school au-
thorities were giving two days of
their valuable time to the federal
program. Another volunteer group
—the local war price and rationing
boards—launched into the heaviest
part of the program as soon as regis-
tration is over—that of deciding who
shall get supplemental rations. It
will be a terrific task and one that
cannot be handled without serious
thought and long hours of labor.
OPA’s mileage rationing program
received a healthy shot in the arm
during the past week with the an-
nouncement that through Nov. 7,
1,483,800 idle passenger-type tires
had been turned in to the Defense
Supplies Corporation. These tires
will be turned back into trade chan-
nels shortly where they will be ra-
tioned to the country’s motorists on
the basis of essential mileage. It is
a major factor in the government’s
plan to keep all the nation’s passen-
ger automobiles rolling.
A. C. Nixon, local agent for Am-
erican Railway Express, reports 148
tires have been turned in to him by
local owners in order that they
might register for gasoline books.
Most of the tires are about worn
out, and were kept on land by mo-
torists to be used in emergencies.
Synthetic Rubber
Long Way Off
Jeffers,
he was
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Nixon received
notice from their son, Jackson Berry
Nixon, that he has successfully com-
pleted his four months fire control
training course at the Great Lakes
Naval Training school, and expects
to be transferred to the West Coast
soon.
Sgt. Charles J. Devlin Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Devlin of
Deport, is busy sewing additional
stripes on his uniforms since his pro-
motion from the rank of corporal
was announced. Sergeant Devlin is
assigned to the 1050th Basic Flying
Training Squadron at Perrin Field.
New York. — William M.
war-time rubber czar, said
“in the mood to make an example”
of people who violate gasoline-tire
mileage rules.
Jeffers, addressing the Associa-
tion of National Advertisers, said
that while he did not believe in
what he called a punitive approach
those who wasted rubber by need-
less driving “just aren’t good citi-
zens.”
Synthetic rubber, he said, would
not be made in sizable amounts be-
fore late in 1944, although one large
butadiene plant—to produce the raw
material—would start operating by
mid-January, 1943. In all, he added,
10 large plants would come into pro-
duction next year, in addition to
smaller plants making products for
the rubber program.
Essential Farm Help
Temporarily Deferred
From Army Service
Instructions have been issued to
selective service • boards to defer
farm workers between the ages of
18 and 45 who are necessary to and
regularly engaged in agriculture. Lo-
cal boards may seek advice of De-
partment of Agriculture officials
and county war boards as to what
farms are essential to the war and
what jobs on them are necessary.
Workers leaving necessary farm
jobs for jobs in industry or on non-
essential farms or elsewhere must
first obtain permission from their
local draft boards, or the boards
will re-classify those who leave, in-,
eluding both married and single
men.
Mrs. Cora Yates,
Former Deport Lady
Dies in California
Word of the death of Mrs. Cora
Yates, former Deport resident, who
was in Long Beach, Calif., when she
died, was received by her sister, Mrs.
John Howerton at Paris. Until re-
cently Mrs. Yates had made her
home wjth Mrs. Howerton.
Funeral services were held in
Long Beach, where Mrs. Yates was
visiting her son, Rex Yates when she
died. Survivors besides her son and
sister, are one daughter, Mrs. E. E.
Jackson of Tampa, Fla., and two
o.ther sisters, Mrs. Harvey Sharpe of
Ft. Worth and Mrs. Joe Patterson,
Bellevue. Her husband, the former
Bob Yates of Deport, died in 1937.
The Yates lived in Deport over
30 years ago. He was a carpenter,
paper hanger and business man.
Coffee Sales Halted,
Rationing Begins
Saturday, Nov. 28
Well, Mrs. Housewife, if you don’t
have any coffee in your pantry now,
you are out of luck with, this week.
Coffee sales in all grocery stores
were halted at midnight Saturday,
for a one-week period to allow gro-
cers to stock their shelves in pre-
paration for coffee rationing, which
starts Nov. 28, with the first ra-
tioning period continuing to Jan. 3,
1943.
One pound of roasted coffee will
be allowed between Nov. 29 and
Jan. 3, 1942, for each consumer
whose age is recorded as 15 years
or more on his sugar ration book.
Persons who have become 15 years
of age since the sugar ration book
was issued are not eligible to pur-
chase coffee.
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Nelson Urges More
Scrap Steel from
Local Farms
How To Use Coffee
Is Important Now
S. C. (Tebe) Porter, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Dan Porter of Blossom,
who recently joined the Coast Guard,
is stationed now at New Orleans,
La. Graduate of Cunningham High
School and of Paris Junior College,
he was employed at the Midland
Airport flying school at Midland be-
fore enlisting.
Jack Devlin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. P. Devlin of Cunningham, has re-
turned to Camp Barkeley, Abilene,
:after a 10-day furlough spent at
home. Formerly employed by a rail-
road company in Los Angeles, Calif.,
he was first stationed at Camp Rob-
erts, Calif., after his induction, be-
ing assigned to the field artillery.
His brother, Pvt. Charlie Devlin, al-
so in the artillery, is stationed at
Ft. Sill, Ok.
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InanU Barham, 23, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Barham, Deport, this
week was promoted to the rank of
master sergeant at Majors Army Air
Field, Greenville. He attended De-
port High School, graduating in 1936,
and later attended a commercial
college in Paris. Sergeant Barham
in the Air Corps in 1938
re-enlisted in 1941. He is a
iber of the 368th Air Base
With dutiea as chief clerk
administrative inspection of-
Sonny Fagan Carries
On for PJC Dragons
Sports writer of the Paris News
has the following to say of Sonny
Fagan, former Deport Tiger star:
Robert (Sonny) Fagan is the speed
demon on Paris Junior College’s
State Championship squad. This
blond bullet from Deport runs from
either the tailback or wingback slots.
Besides being a dangerous runner,
he passes, kicks and is a spectacular
pass receiver. A letterman, Fagan
is 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 155
pounds and wears jersey No. 64. Be-
fore coming to Dragonville Sonny
sparked the Deport Tigers to a cou-
ple of district championships. He’s
also outstanding in basketball and
track.
Get the most out of your coffee by
following these eight rules:
1. Buy coffee by the pound as
needed and not in quantity.
2. Choose the right grind for your
coffee pot—drip grind for a vacuum
or drip pot, or an ail-purpose grind
for percolator or boiled coffee.
3. Keep coffee in a clean, tightly
covered canister so it doesn’t lose
flavor.
4. Measure both coffee and water
carefuly in mhking beverage.
5. Use fresh cold water and bring
it to a fast boil. Freshly drawn wat-
er contains oxygen that sparkles-up
the coffee flavor.
6. Make only as much as you need
at a time.
7. If there is some coffee left over,
use it in making desserts or pud-
dings.
8. Keep the coffee pot and all drip
bags scrupulously clean.
Heavy Cost of
Making Reports
is Hardship
Government reports and question-
naires have become a heavy burden
on war production industries, ac-
cording to a survey just completed
by the National Association of Manu-
facturers. During the past three
months 84 companies were obliged
to complete 3,479 reports to various
agencies of the government and 495,-
480 valuable man-hours were con-
sumed in the process.
In one company alone, six separ-
ate departments or divisions spend
either full or part time on the com-
pilation of reports for the federal
government. Each year this com-
pany has been called upon to com-
plete 545 reports of 66 different
types for 12 different federal gov-
ernment agencies, in addition to the
478 other reports required by the
state, county and city governments
—a total of 1,023 reports a year.
As each report covers from 1 to
20 pages and varies from 10 to 100
questions, it is evident that the gov-
ernment is drawing off a lot of pro-
ductive war time to say nothing of
the $90,000 these reports cost this
one company.—Ex.
Water Route at
Jefferson to Be Pushed
Malcolm Wright, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Wright of Bogata and
who has been stationed at Salt Lake
City, Utah, has been transferred to
Wendover, Utah. He has been in
the armed forces since May, 1942.
Earl Davis Brown, 20, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Brown, former La-
mar county sheriff and resident of
Minter, having completed his re-
cruit training, is now enrolled in the
Navy’s new training school for elec-
tricians at Perdue university. After
completing the intensive 16-week
course, he will be eligible for pro-
motion to a petty officer’s rating of
electrician’s mate, and will take his
place as a technical specialist with
the fleet or at a shore naval station.
Brown qualified for advanced train-
ing by obtaining high marks in a
series of aptitude tests taken while
In “boot” training at the U. S. Naval
• Station, Great Lakes, 111. n
Jefferson. — Congressional action
to reopen navigation from Jefferson
to the Gulf as a war measure will
be sought by Representative Wright
Patman of Texarkana, he told a
group of East Texans recently.
“I can’t conceive of anything that
would be more helpful to the war
effort than a water route which not
only would tap one of the richest
sources of iron ore in the nation but
ease the strain on our present over-
taxed transportation facilities,” he
asserted.
Postal Dep’t Urges
Early Mailing
Bulk of Christmas mail must be
in the post offices by Dec. 1 this
year if deliveries on time are to be
assured, according to Smith W. Pur-
dum, Second Assistant Postmaster
General.
Unprecedented wartime demands
on the postal and transportation
systems, plus a prospective record
volume of Christmas mailings, were
cited by Mr. Purdum as necessitating
earlier mailings than ever before.
“It is physically impossible for the
railroads and air lines, burdened
with vitally important war materi-
als, to handle Christmas mailings as
rapidly as in normal times,” Mr.
Purdum said. “If the bulk of par-
cels and greeting cards are held back
until the usual time—the period of
about Dec. 15 to 23—they simply
cannot be distributed in time, and
thousands of gifts will reach their
destinations after Christmas.”
A wire to this newspaper
from Donald M. Nelson on
Wednesday morning said in
part:
Washington, D. C.
Government is asking the
American farmer to dedicate
the remaining weeks of 1942
to an intensified hunt for scrap
iron and steel. Steel mills
needs more heavy scrap and
farms are one of the best
sources of this type of metal.
All salvage committees are
being instructed to continue to
make available to the farmer
all their transportation facili-
ties and manpower and to co-
operate in every possible way.
The nation is looking to the
American farmer. I am sure
he will come througij,
DONALD M. NELSON,
Chairman.
Mercury Drops Tp
32 Degrees Here
On Sunday Night
Climaxing more than a week of
summer-like weather, half an inch
of rain fell Saturday, followed by a
norther, which sent the temperature
down to the freezing point Sunday
night. The heaviest frost in this
area since the fall season began was
observed Monday. Saturday’s rain,
falling on ground which has receiv-
ed little moisture in several weeks,
caused but a day’s interruption to
farm activities. Many farmers were
engaged in plowing last week.
High temperatures continuing
over a ten-day period had caused
cotton and corn to sprout and plants
were coming up. Vegetation was
putting on new life.
Many hogs were killed Monday.
Owners were anxiously awaiting a
favorable opportunity to butcher, as
feed is scarce and high.
Mrs. J. W. Lewis
Dies Suddenly in
Sulphur Springs
Mrs. J. W. Lewis, 75, mother of
J. Frank Lewis of Mt. Vernon, died
suddenly late Tuesday afternoon,
Nov. 17, at her home in Sulphur
Springs. She had been ill only a
few days with heart trouble.
Funeral services were held Wed-
nesday afternoon in Sulphur Springs,
with Rev. Freeman, Baptist pastor,
officiating. Burial was in the Sul-
phur Springs cemetery. *
Mrs. Lewis, born Carrie Elizabeth
Brinker in Louisiana, moved to Tex-
as as a child. She had been a resi-
dent of Sulphur Springs for 40 years,
and had been a member of the Bap-
tist church since her youth.
Her husband preceded her in death
in 1920, and one son died in the flu
epidemic of 1918. Surviving are
four sons, M. R. Lewis of Sulphur
Springs, Frank Lewis of Mt. Vernon,
W. B. Lewis of Dallas, and J. T.
Lewis of Athens; eight grandchild-
ren. and six great grandchildren.—
Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald.
Tired of Carrots But
They Helped Make
Him Marine
Butte, Mont. — Blair E. Hurd,
Anacando, Mont., hotel clerk who
was recently accepted into the Unit-
ed States marine corps, is one re-
cruit who won’t reach for the dish
in a hurry when the carrots are
passed around at mess.
Hurd failed to pass the eye exam-
ination when he first applied for
enlistment and was told by Lieut.
Stephen Flynn, examining surgeon,
to “drink a little carrot juice” to
correct the defect.
Hurd drank twenty-seven cans of
the stuff in eleven days, making it
his main liquid diet during the
time that elapsed between examin-
ations. He again applied and this
time passed with flying colors.
How Much Water
Trees Give Off
Thru Their Leaves?
We all are familiar with the fact
that plants and trees take up water
through their roots. Not so common-
ly understood is the fact that the
great bulk of the water that is taken
up by the roots escapes into the air
through the stomata or microscopic
“mouths” in the leaves. It has been
estimated that the average oak tree,
in the course of its five months of
active annual growth, transpires or
evaporates about 28,000 gallons of
water into the atmosphere, or more
than 180 gallons a day.—Christian
Science Monitor.
Economics No Worry,
Bicycle Gets His All
Montgomery, Ala. — A negro and
his bicycle were brought into court
as part of the evidence in a theft
case. The bike had four large head-
lights, three horns, two bushy fox
tails hanging from the handlebars,
th.ree batteries for operating horns
and lights, a dozen red reflectors
and other gadgets, including a met-
al devil thumbing his nose.
Judge John B. Scott asked the
owner where he got them all.
“I’se on relief,” the negro said. “I
don’t have to worry about no place
to stay or nothing to eat so every-
thing I gets I just spends on my
bicycle.”
Sucker List Worth
Much to Some
Willingham Home
Damaged by Fire
Slight damage was caused by fire
from a faulty flue at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Willingham west
of the Baptist church Sunday night.
The volunteer fire department an-
swered the call and extinguished the
blaze.
Men Inducted Into
Army by Board 2
Men who have recently been in-
ducted into the U. S. Army from
this immediate vicinity through the
Paris Selective Service Board are:
Roily Rook Jordan, Cunningham
William Tatym, Pattonville R1
Dixie .Walker, -FattaavUle R1 ■.
Jap Leaders Do Not
Want Peace, Says Grew
Chicago. — Joseph C. Grew, am-
bassador to Japan at the outbreak
of the war, asserts that the Japanese
war lords must be eliminated before
there can be peace in the Pacific.
“The men now controlling Japan,”
Grew said in an address prepared
for the Chicago Council on Foreign
Relations, “are ruthless, unscrupu-
lous and dangerous. They are not
impeded by moral scruples which
arc the basis of good government
and of sound international relations.
They give no quarter and they seek
none.”
CHILDERS GETS EIGHT POINT
BUCK AND TURKEY
A hunting party composed of Dr.
Stephen H. Grant, Roger Kelsey, Al-
bert Singleton, Gussie Nobles and
John Childers returned Saturday
from Kerr county, where they spent
the week hunting. Mautie Dinwid-
die accompanied them as cook. Jno.
Childers killed an 8-point buck and
a turkey, but the rest of the party
failed to connect.
Suppose that once, in a moment
of temporary insanity, you ordered
by mail a pair of loaded dice, a deck
of marked cards, or a system for
playing the horses.
Thereafter, so long as you had a
known mailing address, your name
would have a cash value to persons
you never see.
Your name and address would be
one of several thousand regularly
offered for sale to merchants of
crooked or trashy merchandise like-
ly to appeal to you and your kind.
The theory of those who exploit
suckers is that a sucker never re-
forms.
LANDLORDS MUST REPORT
BEFORE DECEMBER 15
All persons renting property in
Lamar county must make reports of
such rentals to the Office of Price
Administration at Paris before Dec.
15. Blanks for such reports are
available as of March 1, 1942, and
were effective on Nov. 1. They may
be had at the Deport postoffice.
RED RIVER COUNTY
TEACHERS NAME OFFICERS
Leslie Griffin was re-elected presi-
dent of the Red River County Teach-
ers Association when the group or-
ganized for the ensuing year. A. H.
Burton of Bagwell was made vice-
president and John T. Felts, Clarks-
ville, secretary-treasurer. Legisla-
tive committee appointed includes
Felts, R. M. White, Clarksville and
A. V. Price, Fulbright.
LAMAR COUNTY COTTON
GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that 25,160
bales of cotton were ginned in La-
mar county from the crop of 1942
prior to Nov. 14 as compared with
15,727 bales for the crop of 1941.
Soldiers Taught
Reading-Writing
Austin.—Teaching soldiers to read
and write by “remote control” is the
latest war service of the University
of Texas.
The School of Education has been
asked to train soldiers as teachers
for a group of enlisted men at Camp
Swift, near here, who can neither
read nor write, Dr. J. G. Umstattd,
professor of secondary education,'lias
revealed.
AAA COMMITTEEMAN
TAKES NEW POSITION
Roy West, for the past four yi
member of the Red River Coi
AAA Committee, has been api
ed administrative officer of the
ricultural Conservation
in Franklin county. His Sui
has not yet been named
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